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Berlin’s premiere longform improv training school is proud to offer workshops & courses for your company or event!

We work directly with teams and tailor to your specific needs. Whether you need to jump-start innovation and creative ideation, bring teams closer together, relieve inhibitions among new team members or just want to have some fun, we’ve got your back!

Our instructors have years of experience teaching, performing and innovating improv.

Corporate Training Program

At The CCB Training School, we believe in training students as performers, regardless of their end goals. We use this same philosophy in our Corporate Training Program. We believe improv comedy is a performing art that can be vital and useful in work life. Our workshops & courses are fun, active, and designed to bring participants out of their shell - perfect for team-building, ice-breakers, leadership training, and much more. We tailor our workshops for each of our clients and work with group organizers to create a fun and engaging curriculum specific to their goals. We offer private workshops and full courses on location at Comedy Café Berlin and are also happy to send instructors to your office or a location of your choosing.

Our Workshops

Typical length: 2-6 hoursGroup-size: 6 to 16 participants per instructor
The perfect workshop for groups looking for a fun activity to do together, or for teams looking to build team cohesion. We begin the workshop with a series of ‘warm-up’ exercises designed to introduce participants to core improv concepts: agreement, support, and commitment. Building on these concepts, we then introduce exercises and improv ‘games’ tailored towards specific goals for the team with the aim of creating group work while creating a fun and supportive atmosphere. We end the workshop by guiding participants through a short show performed for each other, utilizing the skills learned from our exercises.

Typical length: 2-3 hoursGroup-size: 6 to 16 participants per instructor
We begin the workshop with introduction ‘warm-up’ exercises designed to introduce participants to one another in a fun way while building core improv concepts: agreement, support, and commitment. We then build on this with exercises designed to generate and strengthen group work. We end the workshop by guiding participants through a short show performed for each other, emphasizing information participants have learned about one another over the course of the workshop.

Typical length: 3-6 hoursGroup-size: 6 to 10 participants
This workshop focuses on good leadership skills. We begin the workshop with a series of ‘warm-up’ exercises designed to introduce participants to core improv concepts and how these are vital tools for group/team leaders: agreement, support, listening and commitment. We build on these core concepts with exercises and improv ‘games’ designed to explore effective communication, management, and problem-solving skills in a fun and supportive atmosphere. Our aim for this workshop is for participants to leave with a new toolset of techniques that help them become more effective leaders.

Typical length: 3-6 hoursGroup-size: 6 to 16 participants
This workshop focuses on how to tell a compelling story off the cuff. We begin the workshop with a series of ‘warm-up’ exercises designed to introduce participants to core improv concepts: agreement, support, and listening. We build on these concepts with exercises and improv ‘games’ designed to highlight positive and free flowing storytelling principles. We emphasize how off the cuff storytelling supports and builds creative ideation. This workshop is the perfect tool for creative teams looking for a motivation boost and new ways to jump-start their creative process.

Typical length: Any!Group-size: 6 to 16 participants
Looking for something else? With our years of experience teaching and performing improv, we’re happy to work with you and your team to create specialized workshops or full courses that suit your individual goals! Get in touch and we’ll make it happen!

Clients

Some of our happy clients!

[…] as studio manager at a fitness studio, I thought an improv basics workshop would be the perfect team building event and ‘learning op’ for our trainers. They’re on stage daily. Having Noah in for a few hours was enough to get them laughing, bonding and out of their shells. We had this improv workshop over several months ago, and I still have instructors telling me how much fun they had. They want more!Megan Lillick, BECYCLE

[…] Incorporating a workshop on improvisation in our leadership training was really time well invested. The workshop was led by the excellent instructors Noah and Josh, who in a playful way, pushed the participants out of their comfort zone and made them behave in different ways than they usually do. […] The feedback I got from the participants was that since they had tried certain behaviors in the safe environment of the workshop, they were not so hesitant to try it in their work environment interacting with their teams. Doing things in a new and different way doesn’t have to be scary and can actually add a lot of value. Thank you for pushing us out of our comfort zone and adding big smiles to our faces at the same time!Thérèse Troedsson, Vattenfall Management Institute

[…] thanks to you and your awesome team! The students really enjoyed the activity, and you guys did a great job getting them out of their shells. It was really cool to stand back and watch the campus come to life and get really REALLY loud.Spencer Utt, GISMA Business School

Our students come from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. We invited Josh to come to our first week to help with team building. Josh was professional, efficient, and creatively funny. Within a very short time, our students, who were strangers to each other, were running around like monkeys laughing uncontrollably. Since then, the group has really coalesced into a tight team. Thank you, Josh.Noam Miller, JAcademy

Who We Are

The Comedy Café Berlin Training School is Berlin’s premier English-language improv comedy school. Founded by Josh Telson & Noah Telson and based out of Comedy Café Berlin, CCBTS aims to provide students with a foundational knowledge in the art of improv comedy, guide students and players to become top-notch performers and offer real world applications for the lessons taught. Our teachers have decades of training experience and have trained with the Upright Citizens Brigade, ComedySportz, iO, L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and more importantly, have formed their own ethos right here in Berlin.